GE six THE MIChICAN DAILY PIECING LIFE TOGETHER: War Memories Symbolized By Skirts Made of Scraps I The war left the world with the task of piecing together the rem- nants of life-like sewing differ- ent scraps of cloth on a lining to make them whole. In fact a recent visitor here, Mme. Adrienne M. Boisevain of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, started a movement among the women there to make skirts out of scraps as a symbol of the united world to come. IT ALL STARTED during the war, Mme. Boisevain said in an interview, when she was in the resistance movement. Her sons were working in the basement of their home to make weapons for the Dutch under- ground. They repaired small arms that the Germans had discarded, made explosives, and devised a way of connecting a hidden radio to the telephone so they could listen to British broadcasts. THE HOUSE became a head- quarters for more than 100 mem- bers of the resistance movement. A secret bureau was set up on the second floor to find housing for Jews who had to disappear from the German and for Allied parachutists who landed nearby. Men often had to be hidden in small spaces between the ceiling Books, Music Available in CoedLibrary The League Library provides a storelouse of good books and also features fine musical entertain- ment. The League Council invites everyone on campus to attend the classical record concerts held each weekend. Programs of coming concerts are printed in The Daily. Usually the library's facilities are open only to women but men are urged to come to these pro- grams. Last year similar concerts were held every Sunday afternoon on the second floor of the League. At the beginning of this semester, houses were canvassed and the re- sponse and demand for continu- tion of such programs was strong. * * * THE LIBRARY also holds a first-rate place in study atmos- phere. It is one of the most im- pressive rooms in the League; its carpeted floors, book-lined walls, picturesque fireplace, and soft, comfortable chairs are conducive to a pleasurable mood of concen- tration. There are 3500 volumes on the shelves, specializing in fine col- lections of fiction, poetry, drama, biography, and l music. Also the Michigan League Presi- dent's Reports and a complete index of past Ensians are handy. A librarian is always nearby to aid League petition writers and those searching for references. In addition to latest books the library also has current subscrip- tions to many of the most popular magazines such as the "Atlantic Monthly," "Good Housekeeping," "New Yorker," and the "Saturday Review of Literature." The Sun- day edition of the "New York Times" is available every week. The library's hours are 1 to 5:30 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. on week days. Saturday it is open from 1 to 5:30 p.m. and on Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. and the floor of the room above, or inside the walls. A dozen or twenty fugitives might be hidden at one time. .No one dared sleep in his bed. THE BOISEVAINS worked for three years without being detect- ed, but finally they were caught and thrown in prison; the Nazis made their house a trap for other members of the underground. There was only one tiny wom- en's prison in Holland, Mme. Boisevain said. She occupied an 8x10-foot cell with six other women and one bed. "It is easy to face danger when you are free," she said. "But hu- man beings are no longer good when they are deprived of free- dom." IN THE PRISON, the seven women got on each other's nerves and quarrelled continually though they had all been imprisoned for the same thing. Finally Mme. Boisevain got a. package of clean clothes from a friend. She searched in it for a message from her sons, whom she knew were about to be shot. There wasn't any written mes- sage, but at the bottom of the package she found a brightly-col- ored scarf made from pacthes of the clothing of many of the people she had known. THEY HUNG the scarf upon the wall. It made a patch of cheerful color in the lead-grey* cell. Each scrap reminded Mme. Boisevain of stories about the person who had owned it. The stories gave them all some- thing to do, and united them again in harmony. AFTER, THREE YEARS in vari- ous prisons in the Netherlands and Germany, Mme. Boisevain and many other political prisoners were released at the request of Count Folke Bernadotte, director of the Swedish Red Cross. Many had died; many more perished on the way to safety. Mme. Boisevain weighed only 60 pounds, and had no hair; her skin had shrunk and turned a dark yellowish brown color. "I another week I would have been dead too," she said. * * * AT THE HOSPITAL in Sweden, she rapidly recovered her strength, but there was nothing to do. Mme. Boisevain remembered the brightly-colored scraps. She asked the Swedish women for any pieces of cloth they didn't want. When she began sewing them together, her hosts told her stories about the people to whom they had belonged. She gave the pieces she sewed together to the Swed- ish women as presents. ON THE PLANE home to the Netherlands, Mrs. Boisevain said, "I saw that all the world below me was scraps and remnants, and I knew I had to put my own life together again." Sponged Fabric Be sure to ask the salesgirl if a fabric has been sponged. This process, which shrinks the fabric before it is cut, is important if the finished garment is expected to keep its shape. Some fabrics are composed of two fibers such as wool and rayon suiting. 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LEARNING how to budget time is the way to have time for that impromptu coke date with that dream boy that sits in the next seat in "psych" lecture. Just take a look at the clock. Out of most round-the-clock periods a sociable coed sleeps eight hours, spends six hours in class, and has 10 whole hours to play around with. That means a couple of hours between sun-up and breakfast, six hours between the last class and shut-eye time and sixty quick minutes in the middle of the day for lunch, a quick hand of bridge, and prettying up for afternoon classes. * * * AND WHAT happens to that ex- tra time? All the old adages, "early to bed, early to rise," "oh what a beautiful morning" stuff, add- .yy .T . " i.h / sure sign - of spring " ..-all-wool crepe - JACKET DRESS for the : a \ , \\\ ----. f S S 4 l . U t and toast, to keep you bright-eyed till lunchtime. Wouldn't it be easier to eat breakfast than to spend an hour each day pining for lunch? 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